Improvement in cider-presses



N. PETERS, PHCTOALITHOGRAPHER, wAsHlNGTON, D C.

@sind (attira rnANors Hover, or New venir, N. Y. 9

Lenmraam No. 102,402, aan 1p1-i126, 18'70 IMPROVEMENT `IN QDERPRESSES.

The Schedule refe'rred to in.these Letters E-atent and making part of the same.

To all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I,-FRANo1s Hover, of the city,

. count-y,l and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementsin Gider-Presses, of which the followlng -is a' full, clear, and exact description, reference ybeing had to the accompanying drawing form-v ing part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation; -Fignre 2, a vertical section; and

.Figure 3, a plan of a cider-press constructed in accprdanee with my improvement.

`Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention consists in a combination of serrated mashers of blade-form, either one revolving at a different velocity, in a reverse direction, through the other, and the one masher working in'juxtaposition to obliquely-set ribs, preferably made sharp, arranged -in thersides of thchopper; also, the invention includes,

in combination with the elements just recited, fixed knives, arranged tov extend across the dscharge-aper ture of the hopper, and upwardly-projecting knives from the bottom thereof.

- Referring to tbe accompanying drawing-- A represents the hopper, into which the apples are fed, and V s s', horizontal shafts arranged across and within the same, at a suitable distabce apart. These shafts are speeded by gears c b, set in motion by a hand-wheel or crank, to revolve at different velocities in ,reverse directions.

On these shafts s s' are mashers B B', each made up of a seriesof radial blades that are serrated on their sides, and which are arranged in rows, with their blades of such a length that a row of blades in the one masher works between two rows of blades in the other masher.

Under such an arrangement it will be observed that, in order to fill up the hopper in a crosswise direction, the one washer B has a greater number of rows of blades than the other washerB. This causes tlie outside rows ofblades of the washer -B' to lie so far away from the sides ofthe hopperthat apples or porbetween them and the sides of the hopper. To prevent this, and'to assist the serrated blades of the mashers in their operation of breaking and mashing or grinding the apples, I arrange, down the insides ofthe hopper, opposite the ends of the masher B contain; ing the -fewest blades, variously and obliqnely-set or disposed ribs c c,'of angular or knife-forni in their transverse section. i v

I prefer, also, to arrange within the hopper,-as projections from it's bottom, knives l d, disposed to lie between the blades, and which may likewise be made serrated ou their sides; and, furthermore, provide the discharge-aperture e of the hopper with `cross-knives ll these elements or devices serve to prevent any possibility oilumpy or imperfectly-mash ed produce passing 'through the mill portion of the press to the vat C -below, .over .the one side of which vat the aperture c is arranged, and by which arrangement room is provided for getting at the vat and for the working of the screw D of the press.

VVhatis here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination and arrangement of the mashers BBmadeto revolve at dilferent velocities in rcverse directions, `and composed of blades which are serrated ou their sides, in combination with the knives or ribs c, on the sides .of the hopper, in vproximity to the ends ofthe onernasher, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the knives ff in the bottom of the hopper, with the mashers B B made up of serrated blades,.arranged and operating essentially as herein setbrth.l

3. The combination and arrangement of the upwardly-projecting knives d, the revolving yserratedblademashcrs B B', the cross-bottom knives ff, and the ribs or kniveslc c, substantially as shown and described. i 1

i FRANC-I S HOVEY.

Witnesses FRED. HAYNES, R. E. RABEAU. 

